Web Share API

lucashms · December 24, 2021, 3:33pm

Hi! Hope I’m in the right place…

I’d like to know if Firefox for Android currently supports the Web Share API (documented here). The question is because I have a PWA that I’d like to function as a sharing target from other apps. For example, you could share a text from a IM App thought the native device sharing pop-up. From what I saw from a fell blog posts (here and here ) The Web Share API is the way to go, providing exactly what I need. I went to try out some PoCs and demos, and I could only get them to work with Chrome. Does anybody here know if Firefox supports this API for this purpose I’m looking for?

Here a some demos that I tried:
https://web-share.glitch.me/

github.com

GoogleChrome/samples/blob/gh-pages/web-share/README.md#web-share-demo

# Web Share Demo

**Try it out:** https://scrapbook-pwa.web.app/

This is a small [progressive web app](https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/)
demo that shows off the use of three emerging web platform features:

- [Web Share Target API Level 2](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/12/web-share-target),
for receiving incoming media files shared **by** other installed applications.

- [Web Share Level 2](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/05/web-share-files),
for taking local media files and natively sharing them **to** other installed applications.

- [Content Indexing API](https://web.dev/content-indexing-api/),
for letting browsers know about offline-viewable content that's saved locally.

All media files are stored locally in the browser using the
[Cache Storage API](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/instant-and-offline/web-storage/cache-api).
Media shared to this web app is _not_ backed up anywhere—please keep this in
mind before deleting something. Anything you'd like to keep should be shared to

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Thanks!